pleonastic

Example Sentences

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The title’s pleonastic fourth word is the giveaway.

From New York Times • May 11, 2022

While Humphrey reeled garrulously from one position to another, Nixon glided over issues with skillfully pleonastic evasions, often taking no stand at all.

From Time Magazine Archive

If we will have it to be, "Whatsoever things he doeth, they shall prosper;" the pronoun they appears to be pleonastic.

From The Grammar of English Grammars by Brown, Goold

With these may be mentioned the French name Fosse, whence the apparently pleonastic Fosdyke and the name of Verdant Green's friend, Mr. Four-in-hand Fosbrooke.

From The Romance of Names by Weekley, Ernest

The double negative, allowed in Greek and Anglo-Saxon, but not admissible in English, is pleonastic.

From A Handbook of the English Language by Latham, R. G. (Robert Gordon)